[1] The satirical comedy series revolves around a whistleblower and an internet pirate who find themselves trapped together under the threat of extradition in the London embassy of a fictional Latin American country.
The show was inspired by Julian Assange’s two-year stay in the Ecuadorian embassy[2] and the controversial entrepreneur Kim Dotcom.
[3] The show was initially conceived by fonejacker star, Kayvan Novak and Tom Thostrup, before being written by Thom Phipps and Peter Bowden.
"[3] One of the writers of the series Thom Phipps once called for the police to publicly shoot the Wikileaks founder in the head.
Emmy Butlin lodged a complaint with the BBC over its decision to employ Phipps on the basis that he "advocated for the public extrajudicial assassination" of the Wikileaks founder.